Do you want your egg fried or scrambled?

Do you remember this old 80s anti-drug ad?

"This is your brain. (image of an innocent looking egg)
This is your brain on drugs (image of a fried egg - see left)
Any questions?"

I think we could take this one step further and make it a 2 for 1 ad - both anti drugs AND pro-birth control. Add a third image (image of a scrambled egg) and say "This is your brain while pregnant" than the line "Any questions?". That would get those teenagers thinking, right?!?

I tell you, six months pregnant and my brain is mush. I am making stupid mistakes and not even realizing it until it is too late. The best, most concrete non-work example I can give is from babygirl's 3rd birthday party this past weekend. In true "Susan style" I started thinking about/planning for the party about two months out. I bid on train cookie cutters and cake pans on ebay and got great deals on them both. I knew I wanted to do train cookies for the kids to decorate as one of our activities. TWO MONTHS AGO. But then when it came down to it, I totally flaked on the cookies themselves. I don't know why my brain said "make sugar cookies"...but it did.

Sugar cookies. Those that do not roll, are not meant to be cut with cookie cutters (seriously sticky dough), puff up when cooked and lose their shape entirely. This seems minor, and in truth is not a big deal at all. But I just stood there in the kitchen dumbfounded. I love to bake. This is something I know how to do right and could usually do in my sleep. And instead of these cute little trains for the party I had swollen looking hippos. Seriously. It makes me laugh right now even thinking about it.... I had to throw my hands up in the air and just say "what the hell" and laugh about it. The cookies tasted great and the kids had a blast, so no harm done. Point though is this type of thing is happening daily right now, and at work as well as at home. At some point it just gets to you, you know?!?

So, I'm just saying...add a scrambled egg in that photo and you have an image that haunts teenage girls everywhere.